Administration Declines to Investigate When Major Union Exploits
Workers

For two years, Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-NC), chairman of
the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee, has called on the Department
of Labor to investigation possible violations of the minimum wage law by...
the AFL-CIO.

According to press accounts, the AFL-CIO's leadership hired
1,000 college students for their "Union Summer" internship program,
making many of them work an average of 76 hours per week -- which, if calculated
on an hourly basis, means an hourly pay rate of $2.76. This constitutes,
according to the subcommittee, an apparent violation of both minimum wage
and overtime laws -- which the AFL-CIO lobbied for ardently.

Has the Clinton Administration investigated the AFL-CIO?
Maybe. But it's unlikely: whenever Chairman Ballenger asks them for information
about their inquiry, he receives no reply.

Has the administration failed to investigate because the
AFL-CIO helps Democratic candidates, or because it simply doesn't care?
Neither answer speaks well for them.